Rants on Cycling and on Life:
Photos of people and bicycles that pass in front of my camera

4.23.2008

online registration closed...

tonight I did not feel like working on my bikeactually... tonight I did not feel like doing anything

tonight after I got home from a long day of working lateI arrived home without the energy for anythingstill a bit of jet lag from the california tripa bit of a jet lag on top of several nights of late nights and early morningsI am exhaustedtoday was not only a late and long day but it was a busy dayenough about workwell enough about the fatigue caused by having a jobgot home to the usual taskshugging the family then walking the doggrant was in the basement with me before I was out of my sweaty bicycle gearwithout much coaxing grant agreed to join me with the dogwhich was good... because that pulled grant away from his older brother dean who was trying to do his homework

to make the hike more interesting I gabbed a pruning tool to clear some falling branchesthen asked grant if he wanted to see some salamandersboth the task of trimming some branches and finding salamanders had him amped

the hike involved grant wanting to trim every branch and me wanting to carry the toolbrutus did his thing while we cleared some branches that had fallen in last week's big raingrant got involved in climbing the fallen limbswhich was good... he had done enough tree treeingthe promise of salamanders was emptygrant had a good point... the salamanders might be asleepit was late eveningmaybe the morning is a better time for salamander hunts

then back home where I ate the left over food from cactus cantinagrant climbed all over me as I tried to eatsitting in my lap grant ate strawberries as I had fajitasit was like a two headed monster with a tangle of four armslisa and dean alternated reading a bookwhen I was done eating grant was done climbing on mehe moved to the bookhalf listening and half getting involvedgrant likes to get involved in the action

the chaos continuedthe chaos is so everyday that I am not sure where things went nexteventually the boys were upstairs and getting ready for bedgetting them to brush their own teeth and dress themselves can be a chorea chore for the parents as well as for the kidsit was already running late and the boys were running aroundlast night there were several books and an effort to explain baseball with some chess pieces with some checkers as basesbut tonight after I put clean sheets on dean's top bunk bed the boys were ready for bedmom told them a storymom tells the best stories

having arrived at the corner store at 10:05 last night I figured I would try to buy my beer a little earlier than the 10 PM cut off as they do not sell carry out beer after ten pm in our neighborhoodnot sure of the law/rule for package beer in washington dc

left the dog behind and make the hike up the hilla nice night for a walkbut brutus is not such a fan of the mount pleasant main streetso I left him behindlast night was enough rumbling buses and tweaked homeless people for my black dog brutus

at the argyle I asked the man at the register to mark the beer better in the glass cooler as I was not sure that the prices matched the packagesthere was some confusionI was not so concerned with the pricethe passing employee said they were 7.99 a pieceI had paid moreI got two dollars back

made the walk home cracked open a beercaught up with an old friend on the phone then logged on to register for the greenbrier race this weekendonline registration closed!

I told myself...you can get out of putting the bike in the standbut you need to pre-registerthis lack of prep allows me to have the annoying flexibility to follow the weatherthe weather does not look good this weekendweather dot com

rain this weekend?

now I finish this beer and watch this crappy moviehow to lose a man in ten daysor something to that effectI am a sucker for these pop something about the wedding crasher filmsthey are perfect for being brainless after a long day

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